Earlier this week, while flipping through Danielle Kartes's new book, Rustic Joyful Food: My Heart's Table, I spotted a recipe I hoped might put to use the half jar of sun-dried tomatoes sitting in my fridge. The recipe was for a pesto, something Danielle says she smears over "bread or fish or ...
Peasant Bread Kits: The Gift of Homemade Bread
I've long dreamed of putting together "peasant bread kits" with all the essential tools to make bread baking both foolproof and enjoyable. Are special tools, you might be asking, required to make bread baking foolproof? And enjoyable? Not really. The beauty of baking bread is that it requires ...
12 Gifts for Her
Friends, we're getting down to the wire. I am wholly unprepared in regard to my children (got any ideas??), but I've got my mom, my sister, my aunties, my mother-in-law, my neighbor and a few other gals in my life covered. If you are looking for inspiration, here are a few ideas. Not ...
Baked Penne Alla Vodka
Tieghan Gerard, author of the Half Baked Harvest cookbook and the eponymous blog, has a new book out: Half Baked Harvest Super Simple. It’s filled with more than "125 recipes for instant, overnight, meal-prepped, and easy comfort foods." Naturally, I'm finding myself very drawn to the "pizza ...
Vegetarian Japchae (Korean Glass Noodles)
If you love Korean food, you no doubt know japchae, the dish made with those glassy, translucent noodles, tangled with lots of vegetables, mushrooms, and meat. Along with kimchi and bulgogi, it's one of the most well-known Korean dishes, one I look forward to anytime I find myself in a Korean ...
